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Finance OFFICE: Student Services 3356
In the College of Business Administration TELEPHONE: (619) 594-5323
FAX: (619) 594-3272
Faculty
Nikhil P. Varaiya, Ph.D., Professor of Finance,
Chair of Department
John C. Bost, J.D., Professor of Finance
Antony C. Cherin, Ph.D., Professor of Finance
Andrew Q. Do, Ph.D., Professor of Finance
(Graduate Adviser, Real Estate)
David P. Ely, Ph.D., Professor of Finance
Lawrence J. Gitman, Ph.D., Professor of Finance
Kamal M. Haddad, Ph.D., Professor of Finance
(Graduate Adviser)
Edward Omberg, Ph.D., Professor of Finance
Mehdi Salehizadeh, Ph.D., Professor of Finance
(Graduate Adviser, International Business)
James L. Short, Ph.D., Professor of Finance
(Graduate Adviser, Real Estate)
Moon H. Song, Ph.D., Professor of Finance (Graduate Adviser)
William E. Sterk, Ph.D., Professor of Finance
(Graduate Adviser)
Pieter A. Vandenberg, D.B.A., Professor of Finance
Thomas M.D. Warschauer, Ph.D., Professor of Finance
(Graduate Adviser, Financial and Tax Planning)
Swaminathan G. Badrinath, Ph.D., Associate Professor of
Finance
Russell L. Block, J.D., Associate Professor of Finance
Arthur L. Houston, Jr., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Finance
Prasad Padmanabhan, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Finance
(IVC)
Kanwal S. Sachdeva, D.B.A., Associate Professor of Finance
Robert W. Wilbur, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Finance,
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Business
Administration
Courses Acceptable on Master’s Degree
Programs in Business Administration (FIN)
UPPER DIVISION COURSES
522. Individual Insurance Management (2) II
Prerequisites: Undergraduate: Completion of lower division
requirements for the major. Graduate: Completion of prerequisite
core.
Economic, legal, social, and ethical considerations of individual,
business and group insurance including life, health, property,
and liability insurance. Risk exposure and policy analysis. (The
combination of Finance 522 and 523 was formerly numbered
Finance 521.)
523. Employee Benefit Planning (2) II
Prerequisites: Undergraduate: Completion of lower division
requirements for the major. Graduate: Completion of prerequisite
core.
Employee benefit and pension planning, including regulation
and taxation issues. (The combination of Finance 522 and 523
was formerly numbered Finance 521.)
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589. Personal Financial Planning (3) I
Prerequisite: Finance 323.
Financial planning process including data gathering, cash flow
and debt considerations, goal programming (including retirement
and education funding), integration, plan formulation, and implementation.
Practice management considerations including establishment
of ethical and legal, client and professional
relationships.
GRADUATE COURSES
604. Legal Environment for Executives (3)
Legal environment of business, government regulation,
social and ethical considerations in the administration of justice,
substantive law of contracts, property, agency, and business
organizations.
617. Financial Management II (3)
Prerequisite: Business Administration 665.
Develops topics to include asset pricing, capital budgeting
techniques, dividend policy and financing decisions, applications
of options and futures, term structure of interest rates, regulation
of financial markets, leasing decisions, corporate control.
641. Financing the Emerging Enterprise (3)
Prerequisite: Business Administration 665.
Financial considerations in emerging and growing enterprises
to include internal financial management, external funding
sources, and dealing with venture capitalists. Emphasis on
integration of theory, computer analysis, and human judgment
in financial decision making.
642. Financial Risk Management (3)
Prerequisite: Business Administration 665.
Measurement and management of foreign exchange, interest
rate, equity, and commodity risks. Risk assessment models,
implementation strategies, risk management, and capital allocation.
Using derivatives for risk management.
651. Seminar in Investments (3)
Prerequisite: Business Administration 665.
Characteristics of financial markets and instruments. Contemporary
as well as traditional approaches to problems of pricing
individual securities; portfolio selection and analysis; techniques
of analysis; measurement of risk; return, and investment values.
652. Seminar in Security Analysis and Portfolio
Management (3)
Prerequisite: An upper division or graduate course in investments.
Security valuation, alternative instruments, portfolio theory,
active and passive management techniques, asset allocation,
performance measurement, use of derivative instruments in
portfolio management, debt portfolio management techniques,
ethical standards.